Alice Spencer, wife of the third Sir Thomas Lucy
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Plaster
Measurements
585 x 540 x 250 mm
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Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 534015
Summary
18th century plaster bust of Lady Alice Lucy nee Spencer (wife of the third Sir Thomas Lucy). She is wearing a dress with a low neckline and a border of lace. She has a string of pearls around her neck and earrings in her ears. She also wears a headdress and a chain sits around her breast. Several decorative elements are painted gold. The bust sits on a cylindrical plinth which rests on circular white collar with a square white marble base (NT 534021.2) The bust is copied from her tomb in St Leonard’s Church in Charlecote.
Provenance
Presented to the National Trust by Sir Montgomerie Fairfax-Lucy (1896 – 1965), two years after the death of his father, Sir Henry Ramsay-Fairfax, 3rd Bt (1870 – 1944), with Charlecote Park and its chief contents, in 1946.